 We love camp!
Jewish overnight camps provide our children with safe, exciting, creative opportunities to explore who they are and what they can be...as kids, as Jews, as members of a community. In an effort to connect our congregation to Jewish Camping, Temple Beth Elohim has partnered with Combined Jewish Philanthropies and The Foundation For Jewish Camp in the CJP Jewish Educational Overnight Camping Initiative.
Say What?!
Through our partnership in this initiative, any student in a Temple Beth Elohim learning program who will be attending a Jewish educational overnight summer camp for the first time is eligible to receive $1000 toward their tuition!
 Download an interest form or grab one from the TBE Lobby, fill it out, and return it to the TBE School Office. A member of the TBE Education Team will be in touch with you to discuss the next steps. In the meantime, check out our Camping Initiative Information Library - located in the TBE Library! We've compiled promotional materials from many of our region's camps. Contact information for each camp is listed in each camp's binder In addition, check out the BELYOnline Resource Guide for links to many of those camps!
Once you have registered for camp, please contact us for an application to participate in the Initiative and receive the incentive grant. Sign up for the summer of a lifetime!
For more information, please contact Sarah Fishman or Brett Lubarsky...we would love to talk about camp with you!
  TBE's Top 10 Reasons We Love Camp!
Compiled by Brett Lubarsky & Alison Kur
(as published in the Temple Beth Elohim Bulletin - November 2007)
10. Where else can you pray with your friends, scream cheers in the chadar ochel (dining hall), swim, act, shoot hoops,
chill with friends, eat, sleep and have the summer of a lifetime all in the same place?
9. Who do you know? Everyone loves to play Jewish geography!
8. Everyone is on Jewish Standard Time!
7. From prayer to art to athletics, Jewish camps enhance what we do year-round at TBE.
6. You get to meet people from all over the country...and Israel!!
5. Song sessions! What's YOUR favorite camp song?? Jewish music helps foster strong Jewish identity...and it's pretty cool, too!
4. Campers discover their Jewish selves on the playing fields, in the pool, hiking on the trails, in the bunk, performing on stage...
all surrounded by friends and supportive, well-trained staff role models.
3. Friendships and memories that last a lifetime.
2. Many of our BM3T and Havayah Retreats take place at URJ Eisner Camp.
1. Temple Beth Elohim will give $1000 for first time campers going to Jewish overnight camps, thanks to CJP and
The Foundation For Jewish Camp!
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